Chapter 11. Taking VR Further - Extending Unreal Engine

One of the major factors that differentiates professional developers from the newbies is how they leverage existing tools and libraries to accelerate their work. Very often, new developers try to do everything themselves, either because they're unaware of resources that could help them or because they think that leaning on an existing library is somehow cheating. It isn't. If you're a photographer, you're not cheating if you didn't build your own camera in your garage—you're focusing on the part of your art that actually matters to you. Don't be afraid to make use of tools and libraries that can accelerate your development.

Here's the rub though: to make effective use of another developer's work, you need to put in the effort to understand what they're doing. Don't simply paste in someone else's code without really understanding why it works—you're just asking for difficult-to-find bugs if you do this. Do your homework and find code...